At times even a rational person like me (ya u are right...its self proclaimed...But its my blog remember!!!) can do irrational things.......not out of stupidity..no...no....These things happen when everything is pretty much smooth....wonderful even.....Its basically ..out of too much faith and "smack-me-in-my-face" optimism......
Instance 1:
In my 12th std....Had joined Mr Aundhes classes...One day I had a great test...My sir really praised my paper...I really felt proud that day....On my way back at around 7 in the evening...(over a bridge)...the breeze felt tingly...the air redolent...the setting sun smiled....the birds chirped.....the bridge felt like mankind's genius in stone...everything was perfect and dreamy....little did i know I had to pay a price for feeling this for the next 18 months.......
As I was frolicking along....there came a little kid ,grinned at me and started to wave happily...I was like this completes the picture!!....In my head I felt that this isnt a coincidence...I am generally restrained in public places...But this felt like a time to let go...be free to do wat I feel like..Jump ..shout...fly even....I felt really connected to the kid(the timing was simply great for the kid to appear and wave....)...So I vigourously waved back very animatedly...even ruffled his hair a bit......and then started prancing towards my home.....But something was amiss...or was it.??.Even in my A-great-time-to-be-alive moment.....I thought I saw some hair above his lips...Did I...Did I......hmmm...Wat nonsense I told myself...and then forgot about it....
I got the answer to my above "Did I?...Did I?"...the next time I passed that bridge....The kid was infact not a kid at all but a demented man who was just plain short...and had kid like features(gross!)....And he started jumping all around me and started shouting(playfully)weird things at me....I felt like I was struck down by lightening when he first came to me out of nowhere ...I still remember it vividly...me trying to flee..and this Man-child (who walked surprisingly fast!) making animated gestures and loud noises next to me...God ....It was quite scary ....At one point passers-by had to intervene and help me out....I avoided the bridge after that....
After this incident no matter wat good happens in my life ....I avoid walking on bridges!!!
Instance 2:...Coming Soon....
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Monday, May 28, 2007
AB,His baby and Shweta's new bhabhi!!
I am on a roll today...fell like pouring my heart out on issues like the "Bacchans"....There is no reason there should be an issue called the "Bacchans"...Well according to me at least..
The entire hue and cry about the abhi-ash wedding...actually made me want to puke..but the voyeur in me got the better of me...I watched most of the coverage...hopin to get a glimpse of the bride and her "I cant believe I have the mightyAB on my side aur ab yeh baby bhi "thinkin AB Jr ...and who is quite lucky in life..(By lucky i mean being born to amitabh baccahn...that about sums up his achievements or the lack of them) ...but the difference between me and most others is (i think) that I knew wat I was doin and till date regret the time wasted on the crappy coverage...But wen I saw the frenzy. the media being shoved,abused,the common man(wats that by the way..I guess everyone who is not AB or Sachin T or even Mr/Ms Bobby Darling!!!)..I realised how little people(including me!) value our own lives and wat we do with the only thing which gets lesser by the second for each and every one of us...Our time in this world.....
Now back to the Bacchans and their bachpanas...Trust me there are numerous instances of these....I guess havin millions of imbecile girls shrieking and jumping all around him has made AB junior think that every girl who happens to be stuck at a traffic jam accidently next to his bus and who looks at him just because of the mere circumstance...is a crazy fan waiting to throw her T-shirt at him!!!....He thought the same about me i guess wen I saw him at Marine Drive shooting for Bluff Master(What a great bluff they pulled on us unsuspecting audience by calling it a film worth paying for!!)) Swaying to music he showed me a victory sign(wats that by the way...and please grow up will ya!!!) with a huge smirk..from atop a roofless bus....I was like watever....Please urself!!!.....& I looked the other way...Ya ok maybe i overdid it a bit...but still the smirk was a major turn-off....and so was the extra who was dancing around him very scantily and gaudily dressed...who later on I realised was none other than Ms Priyanka Chopra....Hmmmmm!!!!
But the main thing is that ke bhaiya sabse bada rupaiyya!!!
These people are making money...and that too insane amounts..... because of people like us...ok not me but others...who are quite gullible and at times plain stupid to make gods and godesses out of mortals like these and value them over everything else worth valuing in their lives....I read the other day that The Bacchans are gonna be the first family wen it come to taxpayers also....No doubts about that with UP Sarkar's Maya or the absence of it!!!
But these fans are given the "Achyuutt" treatment wen it come to "Its all in the family" type affairs...I was like...ya i respect that...But Since these people are aware of the sentiments of us over enthuse loyalists...I think they cud have give a snap or two of the happy couple...But thats their desision...Ok..Thats fair.....But then later on I see the "IT" couple posin at Cannes smiling...waving...giggling....standin stupidly....and Aish speakin in a hideous accent about how wonderful it is to be a baccahn bahu...ok maybe...but why tell all this at Cannes and to the firang photographers..who by the way did not care much(This was evident in a photo published in midday!!!)....wen all u cud do is moive the earth to make sure the Indian media and the aam junta never get to see/hear/speak to the "Happy Couple"......
The other day I read an interesting article which talked about the film "Guru" and how it is about a man who is totally self made and did his own thing to great sucess....But isnt that the exact opposite of Mr AB Jr...who wud not be anywhere without Mr AB Sr,his connections and focussed dedication to further his son's career and now Miss Rai....Well.....Couldnt agree more!!
The entire hue and cry about the abhi-ash wedding...actually made me want to puke..but the voyeur in me got the better of me...I watched most of the coverage...hopin to get a glimpse of the bride and her "I cant believe I have the mightyAB on my side aur ab yeh baby bhi "thinkin AB Jr ...and who is quite lucky in life..(By lucky i mean being born to amitabh baccahn...that about sums up his achievements or the lack of them) ...but the difference between me and most others is (i think) that I knew wat I was doin and till date regret the time wasted on the crappy coverage...But wen I saw the frenzy. the media being shoved,abused,the common man(wats that by the way..I guess everyone who is not AB or Sachin T or even Mr/Ms Bobby Darling!!!)..I realised how little people(including me!) value our own lives and wat we do with the only thing which gets lesser by the second for each and every one of us...Our time in this world.....
Now back to the Bacchans and their bachpanas...Trust me there are numerous instances of these....I guess havin millions of imbecile girls shrieking and jumping all around him has made AB junior think that every girl who happens to be stuck at a traffic jam accidently next to his bus and who looks at him just because of the mere circumstance...is a crazy fan waiting to throw her T-shirt at him!!!....He thought the same about me i guess wen I saw him at Marine Drive shooting for Bluff Master(What a great bluff they pulled on us unsuspecting audience by calling it a film worth paying for!!)) Swaying to music he showed me a victory sign(wats that by the way...and please grow up will ya!!!) with a huge smirk..from atop a roofless bus....I was like watever....Please urself!!!.....& I looked the other way...Ya ok maybe i overdid it a bit...but still the smirk was a major turn-off....and so was the extra who was dancing around him very scantily and gaudily dressed...who later on I realised was none other than Ms Priyanka Chopra....Hmmmmm!!!!
But the main thing is that ke bhaiya sabse bada rupaiyya!!!
These people are making money...and that too insane amounts..... because of people like us...ok not me but others...who are quite gullible and at times plain stupid to make gods and godesses out of mortals like these and value them over everything else worth valuing in their lives....I read the other day that The Bacchans are gonna be the first family wen it come to taxpayers also....No doubts about that with UP Sarkar's Maya or the absence of it!!!
But these fans are given the "Achyuutt" treatment wen it come to "Its all in the family" type affairs...I was like...ya i respect that...But Since these people are aware of the sentiments of us over enthuse loyalists...I think they cud have give a snap or two of the happy couple...But thats their desision...Ok..Thats fair.....But then later on I see the "IT" couple posin at Cannes smiling...waving...giggling....standin stupidly....and Aish speakin in a hideous accent about how wonderful it is to be a baccahn bahu...ok maybe...but why tell all this at Cannes and to the firang photographers..who by the way did not care much(This was evident in a photo published in midday!!!)....wen all u cud do is moive the earth to make sure the Indian media and the aam junta never get to see/hear/speak to the "Happy Couple"......
The other day I read an interesting article which talked about the film "Guru" and how it is about a man who is totally self made and did his own thing to great sucess....But isnt that the exact opposite of Mr AB Jr...who wud not be anywhere without Mr AB Sr,his connections and focussed dedication to further his son's career and now Miss Rai....Well.....Couldnt agree more!!
Have head??.....Then think...dont bow down....!!
Its been a long time now..Actually blogging isnt that great as i had imagined it to be...But it isnt bad either...And right now i have nothing better to do anywez...
For the last couple of days...I have observed or rather registered a few happenings around me...and then a question struck me.. are Indians an inherently servile race.?..always ready to jump at peoples feet/bow down/bend over...are we...are we...First the rajas/maharajas. then the nawabs/nizams...then the brits...and then the Policians/babus.......It actually came to me when I saw a man going totally prostrate on Mayawati's(UP CM) feet at some ceremony...there was no need to do it...i mean she was sittin on a stage at some ceremony....and did not even look at the man once.. ..But she very righteously put her hand over his head and gave him "ashirwad" with a very devi like but indifferent and as-a-matter of fact look on her face.....The sight was so pathetic that it actually made me wince thrice....
Frankly speaking I generally have this "I dont give a damn " attitude about who touches whose feet or watever else....but this really got me thinkin...Isnt this how we treat our politicians everywer in the country....Why do we do it...I mean arent they humans(mortals )who have been elected by us(so we are a power above them logically). and are paid by the taxes we give(I shall write about that later...taxes...taxes...taxes.!!)....
Why do we have to put gigantic flower garlands aroud their sweaty necks...or go prostrate werever we can wen wenever see them...wat does this signify...whom does this help...Respect can be highlighted in so many other ways.....Is it Indianness to be constantly servile and appear helpless...why cant a poor man not have the dignity to stand and say whatever he likes...I am not asking him to be rude...but dignified in his dealings......not that by going prostrate the person will get money or anything...If at all by doin that the politician may not get a chance to see the guys face and thus be not able to recognise him to help him later on in life.......But still...I guess the mantra at least currently at political gatherings seems to be :"Have head....will bow down...."
For the last couple of days...I have observed or rather registered a few happenings around me...and then a question struck me.. are Indians an inherently servile race.?..always ready to jump at peoples feet/bow down/bend over...are we...are we...First the rajas/maharajas. then the nawabs/nizams...then the brits...and then the Policians/babus.......It actually came to me when I saw a man going totally prostrate on Mayawati's(UP CM) feet at some ceremony...there was no need to do it...i mean she was sittin on a stage at some ceremony....and did not even look at the man once.. ..But she very righteously put her hand over his head and gave him "ashirwad" with a very devi like but indifferent and as-a-matter of fact look on her face.....The sight was so pathetic that it actually made me wince thrice....
Frankly speaking I generally have this "I dont give a damn " attitude about who touches whose feet or watever else....but this really got me thinkin...Isnt this how we treat our politicians everywer in the country....Why do we do it...I mean arent they humans(mortals )who have been elected by us(so we are a power above them logically). and are paid by the taxes we give(I shall write about that later...taxes...taxes...taxes.!!)....
Why do we have to put gigantic flower garlands aroud their sweaty necks...or go prostrate werever we can wen wenever see them...wat does this signify...whom does this help...Respect can be highlighted in so many other ways.....Is it Indianness to be constantly servile and appear helpless...why cant a poor man not have the dignity to stand and say whatever he likes...I am not asking him to be rude...but dignified in his dealings......not that by going prostrate the person will get money or anything...If at all by doin that the politician may not get a chance to see the guys face and thus be not able to recognise him to help him later on in life.......But still...I guess the mantra at least currently at political gatherings seems to be :"Have head....will bow down...."
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